Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 15, 2026Published at 1:32 AM EDT · New York
MonkeyOCRv2 Sets an Open Document-Parsing Record With an 11x Smaller Encoder
Trained on 113 million document images across 17 languages, the frozen encoder paired with a 0.7-billion-parameter language model tops MDPBench by 2.8 points absolute.
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Kingsoft Office released MonkeyOCRv2, a visual-text foundation model for document AI built on MonkeyDoc v2, which they describe as the largest document-image pretraining cor…
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